Too the few who still visit this blog I just wanted to mention that I started a new blog today. My thought with the new blog is to share daily photos and stuff with others than my Facebook friends (I keep getting vibed for uploading a lot of iPhone photos). I might not include as many political and random YouTube videos either.. maybe I can keep doing that here..?
Got to ride along today again. It's pretty wild but for some reason I don't think it's very scary, fun though. Trying to hold a camera still on these roads is not easy.
Filmed for an hour or so on a frozen lake. Pretty nice day on the job. No wind, sunny, and not cold at all. I also met Mike "MackDawg" McEntire who's in town to film Ken's new car. He was running the most successful snowboard video company back in the 90's but he also made Sick Boys (filmed the first fs boardslide on a handrail EVER and Hokus Pokus (legendary skate video from around 1990).
Went out to party with some friends in Oslo. While at the bar I met Swedish snow shredders Chris Sörman and Kalle Ohlsson, very random and I got free drinks from the bartender, that's rare at my local watering holes so I was honored to be recognized in a place I haven't been to in 6 months. Woke up at 6am, ouch, and got in the car to Torsby Sweden (home of playboy / soccer coach Svennis) where we will stay for a few days to try out tires and shoot photos / video of Ken's new WRC car which gets revealed on Wednesday.
For the next week - 10 days I'm going to follow my old boss from DC Shoes, Ken Block, around Scandinavia. He's now a very successful man behind the wheel. If you don't know what he's capable of I suggest you go to YouTube and search for his name.
View of the Central Station, Opera House and some water.
Icy walk path.
Robin Williams calls biathlons Norwegian drive by's. Norwegians are very outdoorsy people.
Meeting some Scandinavian snow shredders and Oslo locals for the past days was a huge perk, I really like Oslo (except the homeless people and crack heads / hookers who loiter around the Central Station.
Stay tuned.
Here are some videos of Ken I made for a DC movie in 2007:
I know I've been lagging on posting good stuff on here for the past months... sorry. My stats are waaaay down. 500-600 peeps used to visit me every day, now the stats are down to about what an average Swedish 15 year blogger who lives in a town of 8,000 people...
But between getting Video Hyper Shred on track again and working on getting traffic towards Spatziba while contributing to the Swedish economy by drinking a lot this blog got the short straw.. pretty sure that will change once I get a routine going.
So for my 1000'd post.. what is worthy? I'll tell you what's worthy. Per-Hampus' new edit from Mt Hood. Great shredding and sweet editing. Enjoy.
We got this new camera (Casio EX-FH100) and wanted to try it out today but the windy conditions made us try it out in the driveway and down the street.
It's a fun camera with some pretty high tech features (10x zoom, sequences, sequence morph, slow motion and ramped slow motion in CAMERA). 120 fps looks good, 240 fps a little pixelated and 420 fps is very pixelated.
Eddie wasn't too psyched on his skate shots, but I told him they're just in there to demo the camera. He was almost ok with that.
Here's a clip with Eddie and Stian taking laps in Mammoth while the girls were gettin rad at the Jam. Todd Richards and DC suit Sean Lake joined us for a few runs at the end of the day.
We also went to Sonora Pass (aka The Garden) the other day to look around. Stian was definitely on a tanning mission as well.
The parking area at Sonora is usually packed with fellow filmers, photographers and riders but this day we were all by ourselves. Which wasn't surprising considering the snow conditions weren't top notch.
California, March 26, 2010 — The goal of VHS, www.videohypershred.com, is to update videos and photos every single day of the season. The clips will be short, raw, and feature pro snowboarders, ams, legends, friends, skaters, girls, drunks, industry tools and animals. The site will include all types of snowboarding; film trips, fun laps, bangers, trick tips, archival footage, interviews, behind-the-scenes, hugs, high fives and much more.
VHS will be a great way for riders and companies to get their talent and image out to the public every single day. The creative possibilities are virtually endless and VHS aims to entertain everyone, whether they be pros, weekend warriors, kids, teens, fans, haters, or single women between the ages of 20 and 40.
The internet has changed the way snowboard videos are viewed. Declining dvd sales and growing online activity are signs that the old formula of how we film and view videos needs to change. Filming 200 days a year for a 2 min video part doesn´t make as much sense as it used to.
“Times are changing and we want to change with them. I feel like snowboarding has more to offer then a two minute video part at the end of the year. I just want to show people everything that is involved with snowboarding and this is the perfect way.” says Eddie. Pierre also comments “I have been filming for a long time and I am very excited to dive into something where I can combine my Facebook updating skills and my filmmaking.”
VHS is open to work with all snowboarders and companies. The site will launch today, March 24, 2010.
About VHS Creators:
Pierre Wikberg has been professionally filming snowboarding for 13 years. He has created many noteworthy projects such as the Robot Food trilogy and the DC MTN LAB series. Pierre is considered to be one of the most respected filmmakers in the snowboarding industry. A native of Sweden, he usually spends most of his time couch surfing around the world documenting things while looking for the perfect mojito.
Eddie Wall has been a professional snowboarder for ten years. He has produced over 16 video parts, won multiple contests, and has been ranked 8th in world wide coverage over the last 5 years. He currently lives between Mammoth Lakes and San Clemente, CA or wherever his snowboard, skateboard, and guitar take him.
Here are some (a lot) of photos from the past few weeks. I´m guessing I´ve been in a car for about 2500 miles / 4000 km since I got to the US. There´s so many things to see here. Even though I´ve been coming here about 40-50 times since I was 17 I´m still impressed with this country.
I´ve been spending a fair amount of time in Southern California and Mammoth. Right now I´m in Idaho at a place where we filmed a lot for Lame and Afterlame. It´s really nice here. The town closest to us is Ketchum and it´s such a cool ski town. You have to visit to truly grasp the fresh air and positive vibes from everyone.
This week me and Eddie are launching a video blog named "Video Hyper Shred" or VHS. We were going to launch it two weeks ago but we´ve been having issues finding a person who can design it for us (Wordpress). Believe me I had no idea how hard it was to find someone who´d work for less than, well.. a lot of money, to help us out... bit now we´re almost there. Once it´s live I probably won´t update this blog very often.
